Assheton Gorton

Assheton St George Gorton[1] (10 July 1930 – 14 September 2014) was an English production designer.

He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The French Lieutenant's Woman[2] and was the BAFTA nominated art director for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup.

Gorton had lived in Church Stoke in Powys, Wales since 1976.

[1][3] He was the son of Neville Gorton, Bishop of Coventry from 1943 to 1952, formerly headmaster of Blundell's School.

[1] Interview in The Journal of British Film and Television, Vol.